Data guide for jdm14117a

The data files are in SPSS (sav) format

Study 1

Three of the 7 survey forms are relevant. The first page of each two-page form is the same. The critical variable on the first page is WILLING, willingness to try recycled water (NO, UNCERTAIN, YES)

Form 3, Stages of Decontamination:
commercial
rsw
ftap
tapw
sedi
filt
meshed
combo
boiled
trip
tert
terturb
thousand
thouspring

Form 4, Disgust and Contagion:
dgavg
pvdsusc8
pvdatt8

Form 7, Relevant items are:

Distance between initial processing and drinking
mile
hundred

Time (years) between initial processing and drinking
aquiferone
aquiferten
resone (reservoir)
resten

impossible: It is impossible for recycled water to be treated to a high enough quality that I would want to use it.

Study 2

The relevant variables in the complete file (compressed) are:

The four direct acceptability of water items:
W1#_Freshly_poured_commercially_bottled_spring_water_enter_0 (this item used to select attending subjects)
W2#_Local_tap_water
W3#_Waste_water_that_is_boiled_and_evaporated_into_water_vapor_....
W4#_Waste_water_that_is_forced_through_a_filter_that_has_holes_...s

DSCALE for the mean of the 27 disgust items

OCDSCALE for the mean of the FOA OCD scale

Mean4CON2 is the mean of the decontaminated scores for the four different stimuli (cyanide, cockroach, murderer, HIVAIDS

The four scores that make up this mean (after the second decontamination) are:
CONA2 for cyanide
CONB2 for cockroach<
CONC2 for murderer
COND2 for AIDS

@_bottled for the percent of water taken as bottled water

I have constructed a new file that contains JUST THESE VARIABLES: study2.sav.